Sabermiketrics

I've divided this up into three sections: My official ballot, my thoughts on players linked to PEDs, and particular players I feel I need to explain why they did not get my vote. With each player, I will link their Baseball-Reference page and I encourage you to read further about the player's candidacy on Fangraphs  with pieces written by Jay Jaffe, inventor of JAWS and someone whose Hall of Fame opinion I highly respect. My Ballot 1. Curt Schilling At this point I think it’s clear Schilling had a Hall of Fame career. Most people who aren’t voting for him are not using his career stats as reason. His off-the-field life is actually the most common reason why the 30% of voters who left him off their ballot snubbed him. I’ll get to that in a little. What’s interesting is this hasn’t always been the case. Schilling actually did relatively poorly when he first got on the ballot, going from 38.8% to 29.2% to 39.2% his first three years. He spiked up to around 50% his fourth y...